University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN B.A. Major in History, Minor in African-American and African Studies

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1 Rudolph T. Ware III University of Michigan 1029 Tisch Hall 435 S. State St Ann Arbor, MI (734) Education University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA PhD in History Dissertation Advisor: Steven Feierman Committee: Barbara Savage, Lee Cassanelli, Barbara von Schlegell, Cheikh Anta Mbacké Babou Dissertation Title: Knowledge, Faith and Power: A History of Qur ânic Schooling in 20 th Century Senegal. Passed Comprehensive Exams with Distinction (May 2000) History of West and West-Central Africa since 1500, African-American History since1860, History of Islam in Africa since University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN B.A. Major in History, Minor in African-American and African Studies George Washington University Washington, D.C Undergraduate Pitched for the 1992 Atlantic 10 Conference Champion Baseball team Teaching University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 2008-present Courses Taught History 698 w/ Rebecca Scott, Atlantic Histories, Africa and the Americas History 357/AAPTIS 291, Islam in Africa, Winter 2009, Winter 2010 History 246 Africa to 1850 Fall 2008, Fall 2009 Northwestern University Evanston, IL Courses Taught History Africa Field Seminar Decolonization, African Independence, and the Postcolony Spring 2007 History Africa Field Seminar African Cultural History,

2 Spring 2006 History 392 Early Modern Black Atlantic, Winter 2006 Team- Taught with Sherwin Bryant, African-American Studies History History of Islam in Africa, Spring 2005, Winter 2006 and 2007 History Background to African Civilization and Culture Africa from the 15 th -19 th centuries, Spring 2006 and 2007 History Freshman Seminar, Popular Culture in Africa, present, Spring 2005, Winter 2007 Graduate Tutorials: At Michigan: Precolonial African History, Fall 2008, Islam in Africa, Winter Northwestern History 499/490 Islam in Africa, Winter 2007, Winter 06, Spring 05 History 499 Slavery in Africa, Fall 2006 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 2004 Adjunct Faculty, Lecturer African-American History (Spring 2004) University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Teaching Assistant The History of Africa before 1800 (Fall 1999, Spring 2000) World History CE 900 to 1750 (Spring 1999) The History of the Sixties (Fall 1998) WATU (Writing Across the University) Fellow (1998) Selected Presentations Drinking the Qur an Revisited: Embodied Knowledge Practices and Epistemology in West African Qur an Schools. African Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Nov Jëmmal Teere Bi: Ngirte Daara Alxuraan Paper presenter and workshop organizer L Enseignement Islamique au Sénégal: Histoire, Transformations, et Actualités, Institut Islamique de Dakar 8-10 August 2007 (paper written in French and Wolof and presented in Wolof) Constituting Bodies of Knowledge: Towards a New Archive for the 2 Rudolph T. Ware III Page 2 1/18/2010

3 Study of Islamic Thought in Africa Invited co-speaker with Ruediger Seesemann department of Religion Northwestern University (Departments of History and Islamic Studies, Stanford University, May 8, 2007) A Walking Qur ān: Education and the Embodiment of Islam in Western Africa Invited Speaker (Middle East History and Theory and Comparative Colonialisms Workshops, University of Chicago, March 2, 2007) Islamic Knowledge, Spiritual Power, and Temporal Authority in West African History Invited Speaker (Department of History and Program of Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University, March 2006) Race and Religion in the Colonial Crucible: The Early Works of Paul Marty and the Historiography of Islam Noir Conference Paper (African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nov 2005) Qur ānic Schooling in Twentieth-Century Senegal: The Social Construction of Meaning and Identity in an Islamic Society Invited Speaker (Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Jan 2005) Youth, Gender, and Islam: The Politics of Hip-Hop in Senegal Conference Paper (African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nov 2004) Black History and the Mystery of Africa Invited Speaker (Richland Community College, Decatur Illinois, Feb 2003) Personal Histories of Islamic Education in Senegal Invited Speaker (West African Research Center, Dakar, Senegal, April 2002) Power and Cultural Production Paper Presenter and Panelist (UPenn African Studies Center, Day with Karin Barber, Fall 2000) Dual Intellectual Citizenship Program Participant in seminar series (West African Research Center, Dakar, June-August 1999) Pan-Africanism in the Work of Ngugi Wa Thiongo Paper Presenter, Panelist and Seminar Organizer (UPenn African Studies Center, Day with Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Spring 1998) Grants, Honors, and Awards Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty (Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, ) Co-Principal Investigator and proposal co-author for $430,000 Ford foundation grant, Constituting Bodies of Islamic Knowledge: Deepening and Expanding the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa, awarded to the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa, Program of African Studies, Northwestern University (Ford Foundation, ) Author and co-director (with Mamadou Sy Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar/West African Research Center) of research project on the 3 Rudolph T. Ware III Page 3 1/18/2010

4 clerical Lineages of Fuuta Toro (Senegal and Mauritania), a three-year project to catalog the private libraries of twenty prominent families of religious scholars and conduct oral history interviews with their librarians, archivists, and scholars. ( Constituting Bodies of Islamic Knowledge, Ford Foundation, ) Co-author and co-director (with Ruediger Seesemann) of research project on new media and ephemeral texts in the construction of popular religious culture in Islamic Africa. ( Constituting Bodies of Islamic Knowledge, Ford Foundation, ) Nominee Kwame Nkrumah Prize for best dissertation in African Studies , University of Pennsylvania Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Grant (U.S. Department of Education, ) Benjamin Franklin Fellowship: (University of Pennsylvania, ) Hedley Donovan Undergraduate History Research Grant (University of Minnesota, ) Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society Member (since 1996) Biblography A. Published Work Qur ān Schooling, Society, and State in Senegambia, c in Mamadou Diouf and Mara Leichtman (eds.) New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: (Palgrave, 2009) Book Chapter Comment (ne pas) lire le Coran: Logiques de l enseignement religieux au Sénégal et en Côte d Ivoire, in Gilles Holder (ed.), L'islam Nouvel Espace Public en Afrique(Karthala, 2009). Co-authored with Robert Launay (NU department of Anthropology) Slavery in Islamic Africa, in Stanley Engerman and David Eltis (eds.), Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. III (Cambridge, forthcoming, 2010) Book Chapter Njàngaan: The Daily Regime of Qur anic Students in 20th Century Senegal International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol 37, 3 (2004): Article B. Book Reviews Review of Marie Miran, Islam, Histoire et Modernité en Côte d Ivoire for the International Journal of African Historical Studies (2008) Review of David Robinson, Muslim Societies in African History, IJAHS 37, 2, C. Works in Progress 4 Rudolph T. Ware III Page 4 1/18/2010

5 Knowledge, Faith, and Power: A History of Qur ān Schooling in Senegambia (In progress) Book Constituting Bodies of Knowledge: An Approach to the Study of Islamic Thought, Written with Ruediger Seesemann (In progress) Article Service Executive Committee, Program in Anthropology and History, U of M, 2008-present Northwestern University Associate Director, Center for African- American History Northwestern University Program of African Studies Advisory Committee (C-PAS) History Department Undergraduate Honors Committee Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) advisory committee Languages Native English, Fluent in Wolof and French, formal study of Arabic 5 Rudolph T. Ware III Page 5 1/18/2010